Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 743 ｜ The Deadly Consequences of Self-Worship

00:00:00.000 Elon Musk tweets in favor of assisted suicide.

00:00:04.080 But what are the effects of this policy in Canada, elsewhere, and how should Christians

00:00:08.340 think about this topic?

00:00:10.380 Kamala Harris and Joe Biden celebrate abortion and vow to fight for it.

00:00:15.360 Can Christians really vote for this party, these people in good conscience?

00:00:19.960 You can probably guess what I think, and I'll tell you why.

00:00:22.620 And then we'll discuss the 2008 Supreme Court case that prevents true justice for child

00:00:27.740 victims of sex abuse.

00:00:29.400 This episode is all about protecting vulnerable image bearers.

00:00:33.000 I've got a lot to say, as you can see by the length of this episode.

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00:00:37.320 We've got a ton to talk about.

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00:00:56.160 Hey, guys.

00:00:57.060 Welcome to Relatable.

00:00:58.260 Happy Monday.

00:00:59.400 I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.

00:01:01.880 If you're watching this on YouTube and you see that I'm still in my jacket, which is

00:01:05.800 not normal when I'm actually delivering my podcast.

00:01:08.440 It is because it is frigid in this studio.

00:01:12.460 And I don't know why.

00:01:13.660 I mean, it's got to be like in the 50s in here.

00:01:16.180 Honestly, I feel like Jack falling off the door and the Titanic after it sunk.

00:01:20.940 It is so cold.

00:01:22.140 So I had to keep my jacket on during my podcast today.

00:01:26.300 And I hope that's okay for you all.

00:01:29.040 So we've got a lot to talk about today, as you saw or as you heard in the open.

00:01:34.620 And I know it's a lot of serious and deep and, in some cases, dark stuff.

00:01:42.600 But we are going to have some breaks in between some of the more grave and morose things that

00:01:49.180 we're talking about.

00:01:50.000 So we're not only down in the mud, all very important things to talk about, though.

00:01:53.680 And of course, there will be reminders throughout and especially at the end of the supremacy of

00:01:59.240 Christ and the sovereignty of God and our role as salt and light in the midst of all of the

00:02:06.420 darkness and decay that we see in the world today.

00:02:08.640 So to start out, because this weekend was the 50th anniversary, I don't even know if you

00:02:16.700 want to use that word, but of the decision of Roe v.

00:02:20.200 Wade, almost half a century that the decision of Roe v.

00:02:25.760 Wade was in place saying that abortion up to a certain point in pregnancy is a constitutional

00:02:31.940 right.

00:02:32.720 Obviously, as we've talked about many times, the Dobbs v.

00:02:35.740 Jackson decision that was decided by the Supreme Court earlier this year, it overturned that

00:02:41.760 saying, well, no, actually, there's nowhere in the Constitution that says that abortion

00:02:47.420 is some kind of right.

00:02:49.940 And so the states, the Supreme Court decided, should be able to decide their own abortion

00:02:54.620 legislation, which, of course, states before were already deciding their abortion legislation,

00:02:59.420 but they were not allowed, according to Roe v.

00:03:02.100 Wade, to completely get rid of abortion or even get rid of abortion to the point where

00:03:10.260 it was too difficult for a woman to be able to abort her child.

00:03:15.420 So there were a lot of restrictions on the kinds of legislation that states could pass prior

00:03:21.300 to the Dobbs decision.

00:03:22.780 And now states have a lot more latitude to actually prohibit abortion altogether.

00:03:28.720 And so praise God for that.

00:03:31.400 I know that there's so much vitriol.

00:03:33.280 There's so much hostility.

00:03:34.940 I spoke, I was in D.C. for a short period, less than 24 hours this weekend, speaking to

00:03:41.060 a packed room of students at a Students for Life event.

00:03:44.920 And I just talked to them about understanding the pressure and even sadness that sometimes

00:03:50.920 we feel even as we are celebrating the overturning of Roe v.

00:03:56.440 Wade, but as we look to see what our peers say, what our friends and even family members are

00:04:01.380 sharing on social media, pro-abortion propaganda, even our friends and colleagues and peers who

00:04:07.600 call themselves Christians saying that it's actually important that dismembering and poisoning

00:04:13.080 children be legal to somehow protect women's rights or to protect women's safety and they're

00:04:18.640 just falling for lie after lie can be very disheartening.

00:04:22.520 We want to celebrate the overturning of Roe v. Wade, but when we see so many people are

00:04:26.320 still caught in this confusion and darkness, it can also make us sad.

00:04:31.180 And then also many of us, especially those of you who are still students and who are younger

00:04:38.440 than me and you're dealing with this kind of ubiquitous pressure constantly to conform

00:04:43.420 to the ways of this world, like you're being intimidated, you're being bullied, you're

00:04:47.300 being excluded, you're being rejected.

00:04:49.400 And sometimes you're being punished, whether it's at school or whether you're being socially

00:04:53.740 punished by your friend group or whether it's at work, like it can be really difficult to

00:05:00.040 stand for all of the issues that cause us to be human salmon, as we say, swimming upstream,

00:05:05.540 but especially when it comes to this issue of abortion.

00:05:09.220 And it really shouldn't be like, it really shouldn't be controversial to say, I believe

00:05:14.420 that all humans have human rights, the most fundamental being the right to not be murdered.

00:05:20.840 And because babies inside the womb are scientifically, objectively human, I believe that they should

00:05:28.860 have that right too.

00:05:30.080 And we shouldn't be stripping them of that right to life just because of their location.

00:05:34.920 They happen to reside in their mother's womb just because of their size.

00:05:38.600 They happen to be small just because of their age.

00:05:41.160 They happen to be young just because of their stage of development or their ability to defend

00:05:47.360 themselves.

00:05:47.780 They happen to be vulnerable.

00:05:49.900 All of these are very arbitrary reasons to say that someone shouldn't be legally protected

00:05:55.620 against brutal murder.

00:05:58.100 Because if you applied any of those reasons to someone outside of the womb, you would be

00:06:02.620 seen as akin to a Nazi and rightfully so.

00:06:06.980 If you said that you don't believe that smaller people have the same right to life as bigger

00:06:12.000 people or younger people don't have the same right to life as older people or less developed

00:06:17.540 people don't have the same right to life as more developed people or someone who has a hard

00:06:22.880 life who is poor or abused or in a vulnerable position doesn't have the same right to life as

00:06:27.820 older people, like that would be really brutal, correct?

00:06:31.140 Like that would be immoral.

00:06:32.700 We would all agree whether you consider yourself pro-choice or not that that would be really

00:06:36.080 bad.

00:06:36.680 And yet, don't you see that that's the pro-life logic?

00:06:40.200 You're saying that for some reason those babies inside the womb because of their size,

00:06:45.640 because of their location, because of their stage of development, because of their inability

00:06:50.100 to speak up or their inability to fight back, those are all reasons why they should not be

00:06:55.260 protected under the law against murder.

00:06:57.820 Do you believe that a baby outside of the womb should be dismembered while they're wiggling

00:07:02.120 and living?

00:07:03.100 Do you believe that it should be legal for a doctor to insert a chemical combination that

00:07:08.340 is poison into a wiggling born baby's heart so that they suffer cardiac arrest and die?

00:07:16.040 Do you think that a baby outside of the womb should be able to be given a pill that poisons

00:07:23.280 them and starves them until they shrivel up and die?

00:07:27.000 I'm sure you don't.

00:07:28.700 I'm sure you who consider yourself pro-life or pro-choice rather, who says that you're

00:07:35.780 compassionate, that you care about all life, that you care about taking care of the most

00:07:43.300 vulnerable.

00:07:43.600 I'm sure that you would be against a toddler receiving that kind of treatment or even a

00:07:49.360 newborn receiving that kind of treatment, right?

00:07:52.500 And so ask yourself, what changes between that born baby and that unborn baby that you

00:07:59.260 are okay with that living baby being dismembered with forceps?

00:08:04.180 Ask yourself, what changes really?

00:08:07.660 Why do you think that a baby inside the womb should be forced into cardiac arrest or should

00:08:13.280 it be poisoned to death using an abortion pill?

00:08:17.080 Why is it different?

00:08:18.200 Again, size, location, age, stage of development.

00:08:22.160 What is so magical about the vaginal canal, about the womb that suddenly gives rights to a

00:08:29.120 child to where it is grotesque if those things happen outside of the womb.

00:08:32.040 But it's a choice if it happens inside the womb.

00:08:36.680 Understand that that is morally, ethically, logically inconsistent.

00:08:41.500 And I have confronted every single abortion argument out there.

00:08:45.780 I have sat before Congress.

00:08:47.720 I have sat next to an abortionist who has aborted probably thousands and thousands of babies

00:08:53.820 in her career.

00:08:55.000 She was the director of Planned Parenthood in St. Louis.

00:08:58.060 And so I have heard the most sophisticated pro-abortion, pro-choice arguments out there.

00:09:04.640 They're all stupid.

00:09:06.260 They are.

00:09:07.320 They're all stupid.

00:09:08.800 They're all illogical.

00:09:10.880 They're all irrational.

00:09:12.640 They're all immoral.

00:09:14.080 The only consistent and logical one that I've heard, and most of you out there who consider

00:09:19.460 yourselves pro-choice, you wouldn't admit this because you know how bad it sounds.

00:09:24.100 The only logical and consistent argument that I have heard for abortion, which is morally

00:09:28.500 repugnant, but at least it's consistent, is, yes, it's a human.

00:09:32.900 Yes, it's killing.

00:09:36.120 Yes, it's violent.

00:09:37.760 Yes, it's brutal.

00:09:39.560 And yes, it's a different standard for babies inside the womb than people outside of the womb.

00:09:45.980 But it's okay.

00:09:48.100 And it's okay because they would say a woman's right to choose or a woman's so-called bodily

00:09:57.100 autonomy is more important than that human being's right to life.

00:10:06.440 That's the only consistent one that I've heard.

00:10:08.160 And you know what?

00:10:08.700 At least that's honest.

00:10:09.920 And I've heard there are some leftists who consider themselves pro-abortion.

00:10:13.120 Shout your abortion.

00:10:14.120 Those people do exist, by the way.

00:10:15.480 Don't be deluded into thinking that no one is pro-abortion.

00:10:17.760 There are whole organizations dedicated to being unabashedly pro-abortion.

00:10:26.460 That's the only consistent argument.

00:10:29.120 And by the way, even if you don't identify with that argument as a pro-choicer, that is

00:10:34.160 what you think.

00:10:35.800 That is the core of what you believe.

00:10:37.440 You would never admit that, but that is what you are saying.

00:10:40.600 If you believe it should be illegal to kill a baby, which I'm sure that you do, a six-month-old

00:10:47.580 baby, say, outside of the womb.

00:10:48.960 You think that that's murder, right?

00:10:50.280 You think that the person that does that, that dismembers that baby, that brutally murders

00:10:54.780 that baby, should be able to go to jail.

00:10:57.500 If you are for that, for a baby inside the womb, what you believe is that it is okay to

00:11:02.680 murder children.

00:11:03.340 Just for some reason, you make a distinction based on something as silly and arbitrary and

00:11:11.520 superficial as location.

00:11:12.560 Just understand that.

00:11:15.360 And no point about, well, we need more in our welfare system.

00:11:18.420 We need better sex education.

00:11:20.440 Or we need, you know, to take, we need universal maternity leave.

00:11:24.660 All right, let's debate all of those issues.

00:11:26.580 Let's put them on the table and debate all of those issues and see, okay, what can help

00:11:31.520 these vulnerable families the most?

00:11:34.500 But all of those are really red herrings.

00:11:38.260 None of those things, even if we had no safety net, no security, no help, no charity, nothing

00:11:45.420 at all for vulnerable families, it would not justify your stance that sometimes it's okay

00:11:49.380 to kill babies.

00:11:50.360 You would still be immoral, unethical, inconsistent, illogical, irrational.

00:11:55.140 All right?

00:11:55.560 So just confront it, confront it in your head, confront it in your heart.

00:12:00.480 I don't care if you have considered yourself a pro-choice feminist forever.

00:12:06.020 I believe that you are, if you consider yourself pro-choice, listening to this podcast for a

00:12:10.540 reason.

00:12:12.200 God is working on your heart and mind.

00:12:14.600 And if you are a Christian, if you are a true Christian, he will not allow you to be

00:12:19.600 pro-choice forever.

00:12:21.360 Ayo, controversial to say.

00:12:23.560 He won't.

00:12:24.380 If you are truly justified by grace through faith and you are a Christian and you fancy

00:12:29.920 yourself to be pro-choice, God will sanctify you out of that belief eventually.

00:12:35.160 So I'm not doubting your salvation because I don't know your heart.

00:12:38.520 I believe you can be a Christian because all of us have been Christians and have believed

00:12:41.920 something wrong at some point.

00:12:43.420 Like I used to think that the prosperity gospel was fine.

00:12:46.900 I didn't even know what's wrong with Joel Osteen.

00:12:49.880 I didn't know, but I don't think that I wasn't a Christian.

00:12:52.500 It just took time for God to sanctify me of some false beliefs.

00:12:55.880 It took the accountability of other people.

00:12:58.160 It took God's word to sanctify me of things that are wrong.

00:13:01.740 And he's still doing that, by the way.

00:13:02.940 There are probably plenty of things that I think that I am right on that God will sanctify

00:13:06.840 me of in conformity to his word.

00:13:09.780 And if you believe that the killing of babies inside the womb, because that is what they

00:13:16.720 are, you can call it fetus.

00:13:18.040 How often are you using Latin, by the way, in other areas of your life, you're just using

00:13:22.400 fetus to try to dehumanize what is a human baby inside the womb.

00:13:28.500 If you believe that that should be legal and you are a true believer, God will change your

00:13:34.340 heart and mind.

00:13:34.960 You will not be able to hold on to that calloused and worldly belief forever.

00:13:41.420 So just take a deep breath and start to let it go.

00:13:44.320 All right.

00:13:45.020 You don't have to be a part of this brutal regime of the murder of children anymore.

00:13:49.720 Okay.

00:13:50.260 You do not have to carry the legacy that pagans have been carrying for thousands and thousands

00:13:56.200 of years.

00:13:56.740 That includes child sacrifice.

00:13:58.280 You don't have to be on the side of Malak anymore.

00:14:00.460 You don't.

00:14:01.200 And if you have been, or if you've had an abortion and that's part of what's stopping

00:14:05.040 you from being against abortion, there's forgiveness and there's grace and there's

00:14:09.940 redemption for you.

00:14:10.940 You are not too far gone.

00:14:12.400 You've never, you haven't done anything too bad or too much to be forgiven or to be reconciled

00:14:17.980 or to be welcomed.

00:14:19.440 It's not hypocrisy to be anti-abortion.

00:14:22.660 If you have those things in your past, you are graciously learning from your experience

00:14:27.960 and from your testimony to be on the side of righteousness and truth.

00:14:32.000 It is Satan who is trying to convince you that it's hypocrisy to stand for righteousness

00:14:36.180 because at one point you were unrighteous.

00:14:38.460 No, it is a testimony to Christ's goodness and his relentless pursuit of us when we stand

00:14:43.500 for righteousness, knowing that we ourselves are without Christ unrighteous.

00:14:48.260 All right.

00:14:48.560 So come on to the side of truth and let me just say a few things about abortion quickly

00:14:56.200 and I've talked about this probably more than any other subject.

00:14:59.340 I've got a million podcast episodes on it.

00:15:01.720 If you want to know in depth, like I've responded to every single argument, we'll include links

00:15:06.320 to past episodes in the description of this.

00:15:09.380 But let me just say being for abortion or being for the legal choice of abortion.

00:15:15.960 I'm speaking as a Christian, is being against three key things, among other things.

00:15:22.700 One, it's being against truth, both scientific truth and biblical truth.

00:15:26.300 It's being against scientific truth because scientifically that is a unique life at conception.

00:15:32.020 It's got its own unique DNA.

00:15:33.760 It's not the same as an organ.

00:15:35.220 It's not a parasite.

00:15:37.280 All of my organs have my DNA and my DNA only.

00:15:40.420 That child, at the moment of conception, at the moment of conception, has its own DNA.

00:15:47.800 Its sex is already determined.

00:15:49.680 It's got all of its qualities already determined.

00:15:52.080 All it needs is time in order to become a fully developed baby that is ready to live outside

00:15:58.780 of the womb.

00:15:59.660 But at no point is it not a human.

00:16:01.900 If it's not a human, which so many people irrationally argue, then it's got to be something

00:16:06.480 else.

00:16:06.720 What is it?

00:16:08.060 Tervis Tumbler, summer squash, light bulb, a cheetah, an elephant.

00:16:16.760 No, it's a human.

00:16:18.380 It's always been a human.

00:16:19.880 It is always going to be a human.

00:16:22.380 It can't be anything else.

00:16:25.160 So from the moment of conception, that is a human being.

00:16:28.920 So to be for abortion, unless you are for murder in all stages of life, is anti-truth.

00:16:37.260 Scientifically, it's also anti-biblical truth.

00:16:39.740 Most of you know this passage.

00:16:41.080 Psalm 139, 13 through 16.

00:16:42.740 For you, God, formed my inward parts.

00:16:45.040 You knitted me together in my mother's womb.

00:16:46.640 I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

00:16:48.860 Wonderful are your works.

00:16:49.960 My soul knows it very well.

00:16:51.060 My frame was not hidden from you when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in

00:16:55.560 the depths of the earth.

00:16:56.960 Your eyes saw my unformed substance.

00:16:59.660 In your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet

00:17:05.060 there was none of them.

00:17:06.300 So God is intricately, purposely knitting every child together in their mother's womb for us

00:17:13.440 to destroy that handiwork.

00:17:17.580 It's blasphemy.

00:17:19.560 It's also against to be pro-abortion or pro the choice of abortion is to be anti-compassion.

00:17:26.960 And I just want to read you some passages that I thought were interesting.

00:17:31.900 I've never thought of this before, that there are so many passages that refer to Christians

00:17:39.720 as little children.

00:17:41.440 Of course, we know that in Matthew 19, God is calling the little children to himself.

00:17:47.560 So we see that kind of compassion and mercy that wasn't really bestowed on this class of

00:17:52.540 people back in this era.

00:17:55.660 It was really Christianity.

00:17:56.960 When Christianity came on the scene, it revolutionized what cultures thought about the vulnerable

00:18:02.860 groups.

00:18:03.340 So children, the elderly, widows, women, infirm, like we changed, radicalized, revolutionized

00:18:12.620 what the world thought about these previously discarded groups.

00:18:16.940 And we said, no, these are people made in God's image.

00:18:19.380 These are people who have just as much value as, you know, a king or a warrior.

00:18:24.660 And so that starts really with how scripture talks about children, specifically how Jesus

00:18:31.480 talks about children.

00:18:33.760 Matthew 19, 14, let the little children come to me and do not hinder them for to such belongs

00:18:39.120 the kingdom of heaven.

00:18:41.240 And yes, he's talking specifically to little children, but we also see throughout scripture

00:18:45.020 that we Christians are all referred to as little children.

00:18:49.460 What does that say about how God sees little children, that his love for us and his compassion

00:18:57.340 for us as little children is to be reflected in our treatment of little children?

00:19:04.700 It's a metaphor.

00:19:05.900 It's a, it's a parallel.

00:19:07.600 We see in John 13, 33, little children, yet a little while I am with you, you will seek

00:19:13.700 me.

00:19:14.080 And just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you where I am going, you cannot come.

00:19:19.340 That is Jesus again, referring to his followers as little children, Galatians 4, 19, my little

00:19:25.780 children for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you.

00:19:31.660 That is a letter to the church in Galatia.

00:19:34.180 First John 2, 1, first John talks about us as little children over and over again.

00:19:38.340 My little children, I'm writing these things to you so that you may not sin.

00:19:41.180 But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

00:19:46.020 First John 2, 12, I'm writing to you little children because your sins are not

00:19:49.320 forgiven for his name's sake.

00:19:51.180 First John 2, 28.

00:19:52.680 And now little children abide in him so that when he appears, we may have confidence and

00:19:57.220 not shrink from him in shame at his coming.

00:19:59.400 First John 3, 7, little children, let no one deceive you.

00:20:02.820 First John 3, 18, little children, let us not love in word or talk, but indeed and in

00:20:06.700 truth.

00:20:07.380 First John 4, 4, little children, you are from God and have overcome them for he who is in

00:20:11.980 you is greater than he who is in the world.

00:20:14.160 First John 5, 21, little children, keep yourselves from idols.

00:20:19.900 In Matthew 7, we see Jesus say that a good father gives his son what he is asking for,

00:20:27.180 what he actually needs.

00:20:29.080 And if human beings who are evil can give their sons good things, then can't God who is good

00:20:34.840 give his children good things?

00:20:36.360 And then also in first John, I missed this one, see what kind of love the father has

00:20:41.360 given to us that we should be called children of God.

00:20:45.320 So in all of these cases, God is referring to his people that he has bought with a price,

00:20:51.740 with the blood of his son as little children, as meant to be a reflection of or a parallel

00:20:58.300 to the compassionate and merciful relationship between an earthly father and his children.

00:21:03.820 So we see not just a depiction of the heavenly father's love, but really also what the earthly

00:21:11.760 relationship between parents and children should reflect and should look like.

00:21:15.840 It is one of goodness and generosity and compassion.

00:21:19.280 Can abortion be described that way?

00:21:22.760 It's the exact opposite.

00:21:24.740 It's the exact opposite of what parenthood is supposed to reflect.

00:21:28.660 And then lastly, being pro the choice of abortion is against humility.

00:21:35.300 Ecclesiastes 11.5, as you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones and the womb

00:21:39.520 of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

00:21:47.920 And so we're about to close out this segment.

00:21:50.320 It was a lot longer than I thought, but you know, when I get on the subject, it's really

00:21:53.760 hard for me to stop talking about it because I'm so passionate about changing people's mind.

00:21:57.640 And by the way, by the grace of God, this podcast has changed many people's minds on abortion.

00:22:04.420 Again, by the grace of God, I don't take credit for that.

00:22:06.540 I'm not patting myself on the back, but I get messages consistently that someone who is

00:22:12.540 holding on to their pro-choice views, listen to this podcast and God changed their mind on it.

00:22:16.000 So all of that in mind, listen to our devoutly Catholic, apparently, president.

00:22:25.320 He says, today, he tweeted this, today should have been the 50th anniversary of Roe v.

00:22:30.800 Wade.

00:22:31.060 Instead, MAGA Republican officials are waging a war on women's right to make their own health

00:22:37.680 care decisions.

00:22:38.360 But this fight isn't over.

00:22:39.520 Tell me what other kind of health care includes the murder of a human being.

00:22:44.620 Can you think of one?

00:22:48.520 I wouldn't consider that health care.

00:22:51.840 So he says this fight is not over.

00:22:54.620 His administration is making sure to secure the unfettered, unrestricted, and taxpayer-subsidized

00:23:00.460 dismemberment of children.

00:23:03.400 Let me just say, you cannot, as a Christian, vote for this person or this party.

00:23:12.160 You can't.

00:23:14.800 I mean, you can.

00:23:15.840 I don't think that is going to necessarily, I mean, that doesn't revoke your salvation.

00:23:20.720 As I said, God can sanctify us out of a lot of things.

00:23:26.680 And so we make stupid decisions as Christians all the time.

00:23:30.580 So I'm not saying that you're not a Christian, but you cannot be in alignment with what we

00:23:35.540 know about the value of life and about biblical principles and vote for this person.

00:23:40.940 You cannot.

00:23:42.460 You simply cannot.

00:23:43.680 They're pro-death.

00:23:45.040 They're pro-murder of the most vulnerable and defenseless group.

00:23:49.920 You cannot justify voting for this person.

00:23:52.360 There is no excuse for it.

00:23:53.480 I know there's a lot, there's a whole pro-all-life, womb-to-tomb movement that I don't disagree

00:23:59.420 with them on everything, but I think they water down the anti-abortion part of being

00:24:05.020 pro-life by saying, oh, no, we got to be pro-welfare.

00:24:07.280 We got to be pro, you know, liberal immigration policies, all these things that I don't think

00:24:12.680 work or are compassionate by the way they lump all of this in and really water down the

00:24:17.020 anti-abortion part to basically say, oh, you don't have to vote Republican in order

00:24:20.180 to be pro-life.

00:24:21.300 Look, I'm not going to say that you're not pro-life if you vote Democrat or you don't

00:24:27.300 vote Republican, but Roe v. Wade was overturned by justices who are appointed by Republican

00:24:32.820 presidents.

00:24:34.240 The Dobbs decision was decided because of legislation that was written by Republican legislators,

00:24:39.960 was signed by a Republican governor who were all voted in by Republican voters.

00:24:44.860 Every piece of pro-life legislation that you've seen on the federal level or you've seen at

00:24:48.840 the state level has been written by Republicans.

00:24:52.720 And so if you are not voting Republican as a pro-lifer, I mean, of course, that's your

00:24:57.340 right and you have the ability to do that.

00:25:00.100 But just know that your role in the fight to legally protect unborn children is as an obstacle.

00:25:07.080 You are an impediment in that fight to legally protect babies because right now it is only Republicans

00:25:14.660 who are legislatively trying to fight against abortion.

00:25:19.500 I mean, sure, maybe you can vote for a pro-life Democrat.

00:25:21.780 Maybe there's a pro-life independent out there.

00:25:23.460 Maybe you're someone who doesn't vote.

00:25:25.100 Maybe you're not voting Democrat, but you're just not voting for Republicans still.

00:25:29.600 Like, I don't think you should vote for a pro-choice Republican either.

00:25:31.960 So I'm not saying Republicans are perfect by any means or there aren't any other issues that

00:25:36.560 you should care about.

00:25:37.380 Just understand, if you call yourself pro-life and you are voting Democrat, you are actively

00:25:41.960 working for the legal slaughter of babies and working against the legal protection of

00:25:46.920 babies.

00:25:47.240 Just understand that.

00:25:48.660 I'm not discounting your other efforts.

00:25:51.220 Like, I appreciate your protests.

00:25:53.480 I appreciate your persuasion.

00:25:55.180 I appreciate your compassion, which I believe is real.

00:25:57.900 But if you are voting for Joe Biden or really any one of the Democrat Party, unless they are

00:26:02.380 explicitly pro-life and anti-abortion, you are working for the advancement of the legal

00:26:14.120 protection of abortion and not the legal protection of babies.

00:26:18.460 So just understand that, that you are standing in contradiction through your vote in what you

00:26:25.900 say you stand for.

00:26:26.580 And by the way, like, I don't think that Democrats in other ways, like some people say, well, Democrats

00:26:31.260 are helping in these ways.

00:26:32.560 Republicans might be against abortion, but, you know, Democrats are helping people outside

00:26:36.580 the womb.

00:26:37.620 Are they?

00:26:38.820 I don't think that.

00:26:40.400 Like, if I look at the policies where Democrats, like where Democrats reign and rule, I don't

00:26:47.480 see them helping the poor.

00:26:49.780 I don't see them helping the marginalized.

00:26:51.580 I don't see them helping the immigrant.

00:26:53.600 I don't.

00:26:54.240 I actually see their policies as directly working against the well-being of these groups.

00:27:01.260 Like, I don't see their policies helping black people.

00:27:04.140 I don't see their policies helping what you consider to be marginalized and oppressed groups.

00:27:08.760 I actually think that they make them a lot worse.

00:27:10.540 Their crime policy, their economic policy, their immigration policy, their abortion policy

00:27:17.480 actually directly hurts all of these groups.

00:27:19.780 So I don't even see the argument at all.

00:27:22.540 Saying, well, you know, it's hard to say because one's, you know, pro-life after birth and

00:27:27.580 one's pro-life before birth, I don't see how the Democrat Party is that at all.

00:27:33.620 So I don't think that's a good argument.

00:27:35.480 And if you want to know how to bust the silly myth that Democrat presidents actually reduce

00:27:39.640 abortion, which is so silly, if people just thought for like 0.5 seconds about anything,

00:27:45.760 they would be like, oh, no, that's probably not a good argument.

00:27:48.580 I've got a post on Instagram about that.

00:27:50.220 I've got an episode about that.

00:27:51.580 It's called Do Democrats Decrease Abortions?

00:27:53.400 I will link it in the description of this episode.

00:27:55.620 It's not true.

00:27:56.460 We can bust that myth.

00:27:58.300 All right.

00:27:59.820 Okay.

00:28:01.240 Now, this went so much longer than I thought it was going to.

00:28:05.200 This is supposed to be like a 10 minute segment.

00:28:07.040 And we'll get to the other stuff.

00:28:08.840 It might be a little longer episode and we won't spend as much time on the other issues.

00:28:12.760 But okay, let me pause for an ad before we get into this Kamala Harris stuff.

00:28:18.740 I mean, it is, it has to do with abortion.

00:28:20.760 I just want to play you these like clips really fast.

00:28:23.380 But let me tell you about our, let me tell you about our first sponsor for the day before

00:28:27.620 we talk about our dear vice president.

00:28:41.080 Okay, sweet Kamala.

00:28:42.400 Let's see what she has to say to her adoring fans on Twitter in a Roe v. Wade video.

00:28:52.880 Today, we should be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the decision in Roe v. Wade.

00:29:00.000 Instead, after the Supreme Court took a constitutional right from the people of America, we are looking

00:29:06.160 at a situation where extremist so-called leaders in states around our country are depriving women

00:29:12.480 of the right to have access to reproductive health care.

00:29:15.660 This is a moment for us all to stand for freedom and liberty for every person, for every woman,

00:29:24.040 person everywhere.

00:29:26.660 Y'all couldn't see me, but I was, I was laughing because, okay, as someone who does videos,

00:29:33.420 and there are plenty of times where I make mistakes, all right?

00:29:36.580 I make plenty of mistakes.

00:29:38.180 We have a great editor.

00:29:39.660 When I do, you know, those reaction videos and things like that, I have to start over.

00:29:44.400 And at one point, she literally said one word and they had to do a jump cut after that.

00:29:50.860 I'm sorry.

00:29:51.260 That just made, that just made me laugh.

00:29:53.660 That just made me laugh.

00:29:54.520 That was like a 15 second video and she couldn't like, do you not have a teleprompter?

00:29:58.960 Do you not have a script?

00:30:00.200 I just think that, oh my gosh, one of the biggest mistakes probably was the Biden administration

00:30:04.900 tapping her as the VP because of her inability to communicate well.

00:30:09.120 I'm not saying that she's not, you know, some people are gonna be like, oh, that's disrespectful

00:30:12.680 to like one of our leaders.

00:30:14.700 Okay, come on.

00:30:15.720 If my making fun of Kamala Harris and her inability to communicate makes you more upset than the

00:30:22.680 fact that she is trying to cheerfully advocate for the slaughter of unborn children, come

00:30:27.460 on now.

00:30:27.840 I think it's okay to just say that she's not the best, she's not the best rhetorician.

00:30:33.400 Is that a word?

00:30:34.180 I think so in the world.

00:30:36.320 She's just not the best communicator.

00:30:38.140 And it's so funny to me how she is talking about the importance of freedom and liberty

00:30:43.420 and rights.

00:30:44.260 First of all, she says for women, isn't that interesting that you still see when they're

00:30:47.520 talking about abortion, that they use this feminine specific language.

00:30:52.660 Isn't that interesting?

00:30:54.160 And yet they will still say like pregnant people and different things like that in other

00:30:58.160 contexts.

00:31:00.080 And she's talking about freedom and liberty.

00:31:02.640 What about the freedom to not be murdered?

00:31:04.580 Here she is.

00:31:05.080 She was actually in Tallahassee, Florida over the weekend saying, you know, talking about

00:31:12.200 Ron DeSantis and talking about the importance of abortion.

00:31:17.420 Here she is.

00:31:17.900 Can we truly be free?

00:31:20.800 If so-called leaders claim to be, quote, I quote, on the vanguard of freedom while they

00:31:31.060 dare to restrict the rights of the American people and attack the very foundations of

00:31:36.640 freedom, the very foundations of freedom, freedom includes the ability to kill a person.

00:31:44.680 OK, then we shouldn't have any laws at all.

00:31:46.660 If like included in freedom is the right to violate someone else's right to live, the most

00:31:52.300 fundamental right there is, then we shouldn't have any laws.

00:31:55.100 That's that logic there.

00:31:56.240 I think it's interesting that she's in the state of Florida because I think she knows

00:31:59.880 that there's probably some change coming down the pipeline when it comes to abortion

00:32:05.400 restriction in Florida, which I think is amazing.

00:32:08.940 And Ron DeSantis has released a couple of statements about life recently on December 15th.

00:32:14.360 He he said this.

00:32:15.980 I'm willing to sign great life legislation.

00:32:17.940 That's what I've always said I would do.

00:32:19.280 At the end of the day, government was instituted for certain reasons to protect life, liberty and

00:32:22.840 the pursuit of happiness.

00:32:23.600 He's absolutely right about that.

00:32:25.300 I hope that the Florida state legislature pushes some really good life legislation that

00:32:31.440 protects the dignity of unborn children right now in the state of Florida.

00:32:35.140 I believe that the restriction is still 15 weeks.

00:32:38.580 And so I know that, you know, liberals freak out about that.

00:32:42.560 But just think about like 15 weeks gestation.

00:32:45.280 So I really hope that the Florida legislature passes something, you know, more restrictive than

00:32:50.480 that.

00:32:50.700 I am absolutely sure that Governor Ron DeSantis would sign would sign that legislation because

00:32:57.200 they have been a very pro family and have had a pro life message and platform since the

00:33:05.840 beginning.

00:33:06.880 And they had this to say about Kamala's visit.

00:33:10.700 Democrats are proudly cheerleading barbaric policies to allow unrestricted abortions, including

00:33:14.900 infanticide.

00:33:15.700 That's all anyone needs to know, which is absolutely true.

00:33:19.380 Like, that's absolutely true.

00:33:20.700 If you look at the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act that was voted no, that was

00:33:30.640 completely voted against by all Democrats in Congress just a couple of weeks ago.

00:33:35.080 Like, they're not shy about the fact that they don't even believe babies who survive abortion

00:33:38.480 should have any protection.

00:33:42.020 And so Florida leads the way on on a lot of things.

00:33:46.500 I think that's probably why Kamala Harris decided to show up there.

00:33:50.220 This administration is threatened by Governor Ron DeSantis.

00:33:52.500 They see him as a threat in a lot of ways, which they should.

00:33:58.240 Um, he leads on a lot of these issues that a lot of Republicans won't lead on, you know,

00:34:07.000 as far as the vaccine and medical freedom and things like that.

00:34:10.740 And certainly Democrats won't either.

00:34:12.520 And so they're just trying to show that contrast there, which I think personally works in Florida's

00:34:17.380 favor.

00:34:17.880 I think that works in Governor DeSantis's favor.

00:34:20.340 All right, let's move on to this next subject.

00:34:22.660 So we were talking about the beginning of life.

00:34:24.520 Now we are talking about, um, the end of life.

00:34:28.100 But before we get into that, because I told you I wanted to add some levity to this, since

00:34:32.420 we're talking about such serious subjects, I asked for, okay, is there like some kind

00:34:36.440 of clip that I can react to that just like add some, add something to this?

00:34:41.060 And team, I might ask for your commentary too, if you have any commentary on the bugs.

00:34:44.920 So just get ready for that.

00:34:46.040 So we're about to play, uh, you can't hear it.

00:34:49.000 And so you'll have to be watching this on YouTube.

00:34:50.480 We're about to play this like viral video about bugs in Australia.

00:34:54.640 I have no idea what the clip is going to, uh, to look like.

00:34:57.980 I have no idea what my reaction is going to be.

00:34:59.820 I don't like bugs.

00:35:00.600 So I can imagine that it's not going to be a great reaction.

00:35:03.880 So let me see this viral video about bugs in Australia.

00:35:09.140 These are mosquitoes after flooding in Australia.

00:35:11.860 Oh my gosh.

00:35:12.460 So if you can't see this, this is like, this looks like a plague.

00:35:15.600 This is what Pharaoh saw when he looked outside his window and he saw one of the plagues.

00:35:25.440 Oh my goodness.

00:35:27.720 That is terrible.

00:35:29.220 Is it just the mosquitoes or this?

00:35:31.100 Is that the, is that all we got?

00:35:32.880 Yeah, that's what we got.

00:35:33.900 It looks like a snowstorm or something to me, almost like just a blizzard of mosquitoes.

00:35:37.980 Oh my gosh.

00:35:38.860 I, you can't go outside.

00:35:40.460 I wouldn't.

00:35:41.320 No, you, you literally can.

00:35:42.680 I get, I feel like you would have to wear a hazmat suit.

00:35:45.440 Yeah.

00:35:45.880 This is such a guy thought, but I was like, I want to take a can of like off or raid or

00:35:49.720 something and light a lighter under it and just all over those mosquitoes.

00:35:54.360 Oh my gosh.

00:35:55.180 It's so funny how guys just like never change.

00:35:58.040 You're just like from the tough, like infancy.

00:36:00.820 I feel like boys are thinking like, how can I make this chaotic situation even crazier by

00:36:08.120 destroying?

00:36:09.160 But that could, I mean, that could be, that could be an interesting experiment, Dylan.

00:36:14.100 Maybe they need you over there in Australia to take care of the mosquito problem.

00:36:19.540 Oh my goodness.

00:36:19.940 I'm actually reading a book right now that is set in Australia and it's like in the early

00:36:25.040 20th century and they have to deal with all kinds of crazy, crazy bugs and heat.

00:36:31.280 And then you got kangaroos.

00:36:32.980 So it's just one thing on top of the other.

00:36:34.660 I feel for my Australia friends, Australia friends who are listening to this, what do

00:36:38.520 you do when you get a plague of mosquitoes and you can't go outside and you can't even

00:36:44.320 go to the grocery store?

00:36:45.200 What do you do?

00:36:46.500 Do these mosquitoes carry viruses?

00:36:48.740 That's something else I want to know.

00:36:51.140 All right.

00:36:51.620 Speaking of things that really disturb me, I want to talk about euthanasia.

00:36:57.420 And the reason I want to talk about this, well, there are many reasons I want to talk

00:37:00.760 about this.

00:37:01.380 There are ethical and moral things and biblical things I want to talk about.

00:37:04.800 But I saw this tweet by Elon Musk and it made me, it kind of just like prompted some thoughts

00:37:12.860 about the assisted suicide or euthanasia movement that is sweeping much of Europe and certainly

00:37:22.320 Canada and will be here.

00:37:25.440 I'm sure it will be up for a vigorous debate very soon in the United States.

00:37:30.160 And Elon Musk, even though I've always known he's not a conservative, I don't think he's

00:37:33.840 some far leftist either, but I knew that he wasn't some kind of Christian conservative

00:37:37.340 that holds our same values.

00:37:39.600 He tweeted this.

00:37:41.040 So first, just to get some context, Lex Friedman, who is a podcaster, he tweeted,

00:37:46.300 I hate that every awesome thing comes to an end forever.

00:37:48.400 I wish it would last forever.

00:37:49.420 Elon Musk said two of the worst possible curses.

00:37:51.520 You will live forever.

00:37:52.600 You can have anything you want.

00:37:54.760 Then David Sinclair, don't know who that is.

00:37:56.420 It is a human right to choose when you die.

00:37:58.580 This will become a reality.

00:38:00.000 And then Elon Musk says, well, so Elon Musk is actually responding to someone else who

00:38:07.240 responded to that, who said, Peter Diamandis said, do you think humans should be able to

00:38:11.840 choose when they die?

00:38:13.120 And then Elon says, absolutely.

00:38:15.360 Freedom means freedom to die when you are sure you want to.

00:38:19.680 So there are obviously some issues that I have with this.

00:38:22.640 Number one, like this is the logical conclusion to atheism.

00:38:26.280 Atheism, you don't stop believing in God.

00:38:28.200 You just believe that that God is yourself or that God is science.

00:38:31.820 It's usually scientism.

00:38:33.180 It's not actually like observation based science.

00:38:38.580 It is some kind of ideology that believes in superstition that you call science, like that

00:38:45.480 something came from nothing through some kind of Big Bang or that the COVID vaccine works

00:38:52.840 or something like that, that is based in what you call science.

00:38:55.520 But it's really more ideology than anything else.

00:38:58.260 These are also typically the people who believe in superstitious things like, oh, a baby becomes

00:39:03.220 a person when they pass through the birth canal or a man can become a woman.

00:39:07.180 I don't think Elon Musk believes that a man can become a woman.

00:39:09.620 But many atheists do who claim that they believe in science and even that they worship science.

00:39:14.980 You'll hear people say, trust the science.

00:39:16.880 You're not supposed to trust the science.

00:39:18.260 How many times has the science changed, especially when it comes to medicine, when it comes to

00:39:22.000 diet, when it comes to nutrition, when it comes to the things that doctors and scientists

00:39:25.960 recommend for people's well-being, for people's health?

00:39:28.820 I mean, people have had to die because of how many times scientists and doctors have been

00:39:34.360 wrong and after they gaslit so many people about their concerns about some of the new

00:39:41.180 quote unquote scientific findings and then, you know, come to find out they were actually

00:39:46.080 wrong about whatever it was.

00:39:48.160 And there's a million different examples of that, especially over the past century and a

00:39:53.740 half.

00:39:55.240 And so this is the logical conclusion to that ideology, though, that you are your own God or

00:40:01.680 that technology is the God or that so-called science is the God, that there really is no

00:40:08.080 higher power than the material.

00:40:10.080 There's really no higher power than yourself.

00:40:12.520 And autonomy is the highest value that you could have.

00:40:16.320 I talk about this in my book, You're Not Enough and That's OK, that being your own God leads

00:40:21.700 you to place autonomy and authenticity as your highest values.

00:40:26.540 And while both of those can be good, autonomy, being in control of your body and being able

00:40:32.280 to make your own choices and authenticity, not being fake, you know, not pretending to

00:40:37.920 have strengths that you don't actually have or trying to deny, you know, parts of your

00:40:43.740 personality, whatever.

00:40:45.500 Those things can be good, but they are not good when they are not in submission to truth,

00:40:49.680 when they are not in submission to a higher power.

00:40:51.680 If authenticity and autonomy are tethered to nothing higher than those things because

00:40:57.480 you are your own God, then they can lead you to justify making all kinds of terrible

00:41:01.140 decisions.

00:41:02.960 Authenticity being your highest value can lead you to believe that your feelings dictate

00:41:07.140 reality or are more important than reality.

00:41:09.400 If authenticity, because you are your own God, is your highest value, then you really believe

00:41:13.520 that a man can become a woman because there is no higher truth than you.

00:41:17.460 Not even physical reality trumps how you feel.

00:41:20.120 You're just being authentic.

00:41:21.680 And your authentic feelings get to, um, uh, get to dominate everything else, even external

00:41:29.220 objective scientific reality.

00:41:31.600 And then if autonomy is your highest value and none of these things are subject to say

00:41:36.120 God or biblical principles, then it could justify something like abortion.

00:41:40.980 You are actually willing to sacrifice someone else, your own child on the altar of your own

00:41:46.320 autonomy.

00:41:47.100 Or it could lead you to make a stupid decision like assisted suicide or euthanasia.

00:41:52.740 And so when you are your own God, you put authenticity and autonomy as your highest values and nothing

00:42:02.360 can transcend them.

00:42:03.660 Nothing can supersede them.

00:42:05.160 You end up making decisions that are destructive both to yourself and to people around you.

00:42:10.240 And I would include assisted suicide and euthanasia within that.

00:42:14.860 I could see how someone who believes their own God thinks this is a right, but just like all

00:42:19.040 progressive ideas and all atheistic ideas, these always have consequences that in some cases,

00:42:25.500 in many cases are unforeseen.

00:42:27.980 So let's talk about a couple of those.

00:42:30.140 So euthanasia right now is a big topic of conversation in Canada.

00:42:36.580 This is something that is being pushed very hard.

00:42:39.540 It is typically referred to as MAID.

00:42:44.340 And MAID is medical assistance in dying.

00:42:48.740 So just like all things, like when leftists talk about abortion, they say like bodily autonomy

00:42:54.400 or they say reproductive freedom or reproductive rights or ending a pregnancy, they always have

00:43:00.380 to use euphemisms to cover up what they're actually talking about, because what they're

00:43:04.200 actually talking about is is brutal.

00:43:07.700 I mean, we're talking about murder here because we have a doctor who is actually killing someone.

00:43:14.120 And so in Canada, this is a big thing that's happening.

00:43:18.700 There are some eligibility requirements that you have to be a Canadian citizen.

00:43:24.840 You have to be at least 18 years old and mentally competent.

00:43:29.900 Again, how do you even judge what is mental competence or not?

00:43:33.720 An 18 year old is not actually mentally competent to make this because your frontal lobe hasn't

00:43:38.900 been developed and it won't be developed until you're the age of 25.

00:43:42.900 Not that I think that it's justified after that either, but you're not mentally competent

00:43:48.000 when you're 18 years old.

00:43:48.880 So we already see how these standards could give way to really bad things.

00:43:52.880 You have to have a grievous or irremediable medical condition, which requires the person

00:44:00.740 to meet all the following requirements, have a serious illness, disease or disability,

00:44:05.060 excluding a mental illness until March 17th, 2023.

00:44:10.300 So in March of 2023, a couple of months from now, apparently in Canada, if you have a mental

00:44:18.060 illness, you are going to be able to get assisted suicide.

00:44:21.500 You're going to be able to be euthanized.

00:44:23.240 So that already gets rid of any pretense of a standard that they have when they say you

00:44:28.320 have to be mentally competent in order to make this decision.

00:44:30.880 So like, do you not already see how, okay, so if someone has bipolar disorder or someone

00:44:36.460 has some kind of other mental illness, how they could be persuaded either by a doctor

00:44:41.280 or by someone in their life to be killed, like they're not able to make that decision.

00:44:47.660 So what if their family or the group home that they're in or the medical system, the socialized

00:44:54.720 medical system in Canada just doesn't want this person as a burden anymore and convinces them,

00:45:00.020 you know what, it's going to be really hard to get your medicine from now on because we're

00:45:02.920 having supply chain issues, or you know what, you've never been able to find someone who

00:45:06.560 loves you.

00:45:07.460 You haven't been able to keep a job.

00:45:09.560 Is it really worth living?

00:45:10.640 Aren't you really sad?

00:45:11.700 Aren't you really depressed?

00:45:12.780 Of course, there are going to be people who make money off of this.

00:45:16.920 And so do you not see how it can go that direction?

00:45:19.340 And this is the problem that we've talked about many times with like consent based morality

00:45:23.220 that, oh, if someone says they want to do something, if someone says yes to something,

00:45:28.100 then that means it's okay.

00:45:30.460 Oh, who cares?

00:45:31.220 If an adult, if someone consents to something, then that means it's ethically right.

00:45:35.300 Consent based morality is really flimsy.

00:45:38.960 Just because someone says yes to something doesn't mean it's right.

00:45:42.400 That's why when people say, oh, who cares if Cardi B is, you know, dancing like this or

00:45:46.680 putting out this music video, it's not objectification because she's doing it herself.

00:45:50.180 Well, just because she's self objectifying doesn't mean it's objectification doesn't mean

00:45:53.320 it's right.

00:45:53.940 That's why I say there's no such thing as ethical or acceptable porn, because I don't care if the

00:45:57.840 people on camera are consenting to it.

00:46:01.640 It's still wrong because of what it does to the individual that is both performing, the

00:46:05.760 individual that is consuming, what it does to society as a whole, what it does when you

00:46:09.780 create demand for this kind of thing.

00:46:11.500 It leads to all kinds of exploitation and it's just wrong.

00:46:14.960 It's wrong.

00:46:15.720 It's toxic for society.

00:46:17.140 So I don't really care if someone says yes, they want to be euthanized.

00:46:21.800 Like consent based morality isn't enough.

00:46:23.800 Consent might be one part.

00:46:25.920 It is one piece of morality.

00:46:27.800 I'm not saying consent never matters.

00:46:30.320 But just like I said, autonomy has to be subject to something higher.

00:46:33.280 Like consent is one part of one piece of morality as a whole.

00:46:39.260 And we have to have an objective standard of what is right and what is wrong.

00:46:43.940 But when you get rid of that objective standard of right and wrong, that is when consent is

00:46:47.920 put primary.

00:46:49.120 So whatever someone consents to do, it must be fine.

00:46:52.180 And no one has the right to say anything about it.

00:46:54.120 But you see where the slippery slope goes, right?

00:46:56.580 There are all kinds of egregious things that people can consent to that are harmful for

00:47:00.180 them and harmful to society because of what it leads to that we should not be OK with.

00:47:05.580 I mean, every law that we have on the books says is there because we don't believe that

00:47:11.200 consent is enough to say right or wrong.

00:47:12.900 There are plenty of things that people may consent to do.

00:47:16.860 They might consent to speed on a highway.

00:47:19.200 They might consent to all kinds of destructive things that we say, I don't care if you want

00:47:23.860 to do that.

00:47:24.220 You can't do that because we think it's bad for you and we think it's bad for everyone

00:47:27.140 around you and to protect you and to protect the rights of other people.

00:47:30.480 We are not going to allow you to do that.

00:47:33.100 And so, of course, there should be laws against euthanasia because we believe the people are

00:47:38.380 made in the image of God.

00:47:39.920 They are endowed with certain rights by their creator, among them being life, liberty and

00:47:43.780 the pursuit of happiness.

00:47:44.640 There should never be any help towards ending the life of a human being just because they

00:47:50.380 say that they want to.

00:47:52.140 Of course not.

00:47:52.980 But of course, this is where it goes when you no longer believe that people are made in

00:47:56.140 the image of God.

00:47:56.780 You don't believe that they have innate worth.

00:47:58.520 You believe that everyone is a clump of cells.

00:48:00.660 You believe that everyone is just an accidental clump of matter.

00:48:04.020 I don't think people realize how much we are giving up as a society when we decide to forego

00:48:09.900 Christianity as our basis of morality.

00:48:12.980 You think that we're going to have charity?

00:48:14.520 You think we're going to have compassion?

00:48:15.900 You think that we're going to have human rights after Christianity is marginalized forever?

00:48:19.980 You don't get those things.

00:48:21.420 We know what pre-Christianity looked like.

00:48:24.000 It wasn't good.

00:48:24.820 Post-Christianity won't look good either.

00:48:27.300 It will be very similar to Nazi Germany in that people who are undesirable, people who

00:48:38.340 are weak, will either be aborted or euthanized.

00:48:42.660 That's how it goes when you don't believe that everyone has equal worth and is made in

00:48:45.920 the image of God.

00:48:46.500 I don't really care if this is freedom.

00:48:50.700 I think that there should be restrictions on freedom.

00:48:53.060 Everyone who doesn't believe in anarchy believes that too.

00:48:56.540 And there are lots of examples of this being of propaganda of assisted suicide being pushed,

00:49:05.060 especially on minors, and people feeling like they are being pressured into euthanasia.

00:49:09.500 So we already know where it's going to go.

00:49:21.980 Okay, so I've seen a few of these stories going around.

00:49:24.860 There was actually this mom who was complaining that her son, who was not a minor, but he was

00:49:31.080 dealing with mental health issues.

00:49:32.920 This was from the time he was like 18 to early 20s, and a doctor was trying to convince him

00:49:39.580 to go through with assisted suicide.

00:49:43.020 And thankfully, this mom intervened, and it didn't end up happening.

00:49:46.080 But this is going to be happening more and more as time goes on and as the stigma around it,

00:49:56.000 stigma, by the way, is a very important, in a lot of cases, social tool.

00:50:01.800 It has been stigma is hard-earned over many generations of people learning the hard way

00:50:08.760 and then stigmatizing the things that don't work.

00:50:11.100 Not always, but many times.

00:50:13.680 There should be stigma about assisted suicide.

00:50:16.040 There should be stigma about many things.

00:50:18.460 This whole move to de-stigmatize things is just a push towards moral relativism,

00:50:22.760 which leads to chaos and confusion and destruction.

00:50:25.640 All right, let me read you this story.

00:50:28.100 Paralympian claims Canada offered to euthanize her when she asked for a stair lift.

00:50:33.740 Retired Corporal Christine Gothier, this is by Independent, which is a new site,

00:50:41.360 who competed at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics testified on Thursday that the unnamed veterans

00:50:47.180 affairs caseworker had offered in writing to provide her with medically assisted suicide

00:50:53.480 dying device.

00:50:55.600 The CBC reported, again, this is in Canada.

00:50:58.440 I have a letter saying that if you're so desperate, madam, we can offer you made medical

00:51:01.980 assistance in dying.

00:51:03.180 She asked for a stair lift and they were like, want to die instead?

00:51:07.480 Just a little, oh, you want, you asked for a stair lift.

00:51:10.400 I'm so sorry.

00:51:11.520 We're out of stock.

00:51:12.940 Do you want to be murdered?

00:51:14.660 Hmm, strange.

00:51:16.440 Is that going to happen?

00:51:17.160 Is that going to start happening like when you go to pull up Starbucks in Toronto?

00:51:22.180 Hey, like, do you have a, I'm looking for cold brew.

00:51:25.400 Oh, we don't have any cold brew.

00:51:26.740 Want to die?

00:51:28.440 So weird.

00:51:29.240 Canada claims to be like this beacon of compassion.

00:51:32.820 I have a letter saying that if you're so desperate, we can offer you made medical assistance in

00:51:38.680 dying.

00:51:38.980 She says three other disabled veterans are believed to have been offered the same equipment.

00:51:42.880 According to Global News, testifying before the same committee last week, Canada's Veterans

00:51:46.500 Minister Lawrence McCauley said that as many as five instances of veterans being offered

00:51:51.440 the euthanasia equipment by a Veterans Affairs official had been referred to the Royal Canadian

00:51:55.100 Mounted Police.

00:51:55.700 He said all the cases involved a single employee who since had been suspended.

00:51:59.820 Lawmakers apologized to Ms. Gauthier, a five-time world champion, para canoeist, who also competed

00:52:06.800 in this year's Invictus Games.

00:52:09.820 So this is, again, going to be something that happens more and more.

00:52:13.940 We are going to see people actually encouraged to commit suicide because, look, the socialized

00:52:19.180 health care system and Canada and our health care system isn't perfect by any means either.

00:52:23.820 Our insurance system is an absolute disaster in some cases.

00:52:27.240 But the system just, it can't carry the weight that it has.

00:52:33.380 I mean, that's what's wrong with socialized health care.

00:52:36.160 So you have to start rationing care.

00:52:37.640 A really great way to solve that problem is to start killing people who are sick.

00:52:41.120 That's going to be what happens.

00:52:43.240 And now we see this propaganda is being pushed on children.

00:52:47.480 There is a medical MADE is the acronym MADE Activity for a book for kids has now been published.

00:52:54.380 This is by the National Post.

00:52:55.780 Canada funded this assisted suicide activity book for children like Jonathan Swift could

00:53:01.580 not have written better satire than this.

00:53:04.840 I mean, this is I don't even think Orwell or Huxley could have come up with something

00:53:11.220 as sadly just ironic as this teaching children about assisted suicide.

00:53:18.020 Just as Ottawa publicly acknowledges that its assisted suicide regime might have gone too

00:53:23.080 far, critics have highlighted the existence of a little no medical assistance in dying

00:53:26.340 children's activity book that was funded by the Canadian government.

00:53:29.400 The activity book is intended for children who may soon be attending a medically assisted

00:53:33.500 death in person created for young people who have someone in their life who may have

00:53:37.640 MADE.

00:53:38.720 MADE is defined in the booklet as the use of medicines to stop a person's body from working.

00:53:43.100 How sad is this?

00:53:45.000 How sad is this for a child?

00:53:47.340 Can you imagine just how disturbed a child would be by this?

00:53:51.040 Like, I also want to know, like, what would they be coloring in a book like this?

00:53:54.740 The book describes MADE as a last ditch measure reserved only for consenting adults afflicted

00:54:00.380 with illness or disability that hurts their body or mind so much that it feels too hard

00:54:05.380 to keep living.

00:54:06.080 You know what?

00:54:06.620 Sometimes it feels too hard for all of us to keep living.

00:54:10.040 OK, sometimes life is really hard.

00:54:11.960 Sometimes you go through serious bouts of depression.

00:54:15.300 Sometimes you go through serious seasons of loss.

00:54:17.800 Sometimes it's really hard to get up in the morning.

00:54:20.920 That's called life.

00:54:22.340 Have you heard of resilience?

00:54:24.840 Like, have you heard of perseverance?

00:54:27.460 Have you heard of endurance?

00:54:28.740 Have you heard of the kind of spiritual and emotional and mental nourishment that we are

00:54:32.840 supposed to be getting from institutions like church and like community and like friends

00:54:36.620 and like family?

00:54:37.700 The problem is that we are so lonely.

00:54:39.580 We are so hyper individualized.

00:54:40.980 We are so we are so incredibly isolated today that people don't have those kinds of forms

00:54:47.840 of help that give you the resilience and the strength that you need to keep going like

00:54:52.040 we used to do.

00:54:52.900 This is the problem with godlessness.

00:54:54.760 This is the problem of communitylessness.

00:54:57.680 This is the problem with where Western civilization has gone that so many people do feel so desperate

00:55:04.640 that they need to die.

00:55:05.780 And instead of us trying to make reforms to remedy that, to say, wow, why are all these

00:55:11.040 people so desperate that they are actually willing to kill themselves?

00:55:14.460 How can we fix, rearrange society or reform some of the changes that we've made to make

00:55:19.280 sure that people recognize the value that their life brings and make sure that people are

00:55:24.820 surrounded by people who are reminding them of those things?

00:55:27.560 Instead, we're just plunging even further into godlessness and isolation and saying, oh,

00:55:32.560 you're sad about it because, of course, human beings are going to be.

00:55:35.380 We were created for community.

00:55:36.700 We were made in God's image, who is Father, Son, Holy Spirit, who is an eternal communion.

00:55:40.720 And so we cannot be isolated and lonely and purposeless and just live for long.

00:55:46.140 We will die by desperation.

00:55:48.020 Like instead of changing those things and recognizing where we've gone wrong, we're saying, oh, yeah,

00:55:52.440 you're going to be sad.

00:55:53.280 Well, why don't you just kill yourself?

00:55:56.500 This is, again, the inevitable conclusion to where we've gone.

00:56:02.000 This is the inevitable conclusion of progressivism.

00:56:04.220 This is the inevitable conclusion of atheism.

00:56:06.400 This is the inevitable conclusion to godlessness.

00:56:10.080 You don't know who you are.

00:56:11.280 You don't know why you're here.

00:56:12.180 You don't know who created you.

00:56:13.420 You don't know who gives you value.

00:56:16.120 You don't have anyone in your life telling you of these things.

00:56:18.400 You've been told all those things are stupid to believe that you are your own God.

00:56:21.880 Of course, we're going to be depressed and despairing to the point of dying.

00:56:25.740 We've got to reverse course because this is quite literally the end of civilization, which

00:56:30.060 I don't think is really a coincidence.

00:56:35.360 All the people in Davos, as we're going to talk about tomorrow, who were there last week,

00:56:39.280 what do they constantly talk about?

00:56:40.660 Overpopulation, overpopulation, overpopulation.

00:56:42.660 We need to depopulate.

00:56:44.040 We need to make sure that we're not having as many babies.

00:56:46.280 And so this is just a part of all of that.

00:56:47.660 Abortion, gender confusion, the sterilization that comes from all of those things.

00:56:53.720 Forced dying, it is because of all of these Malthusian godless freaks at the World Economic

00:56:59.040 Forum and throughout world governments who believe that human beings are a problem to

00:57:02.800 be solved.

00:57:04.720 It all goes together.

00:57:05.700 And unfortunately, I think Elon is in some ways a part of that.

00:57:10.040 Like, I don't do.

00:57:10.720 Do I think that he would like this children's activity book?

00:57:13.280 No.

00:57:13.800 But do I think that he just has your typical kind of technocratic, atheistic mindset?

00:57:19.440 And it's probably more libertarian in a lot of ways than he has any kind of true, like

00:57:24.520 conservative principles.

00:57:25.680 Yeah, I think so.

00:57:28.940 There was also a man, according to National Review, this was reported in December, a disabled

00:57:33.260 man in Canada.

00:57:34.000 His euthanasia request was it was approved because he requested it due to poverty.

00:57:44.180 So he was disabled.

00:57:45.400 He was poor.

00:57:46.080 He said, I want to die.

00:57:47.060 Canada said, yep, coming right up.

00:57:48.680 Because, of course, again, like if you don't believe people are made in the image of God

00:57:52.720 and they're just a burden on society, they're not productive.

00:57:55.900 You have to start measuring people by their productivity, then what they can offer you if

00:58:00.880 you don't measure them by any kind of innate standard of worth.

00:58:04.240 And of course, why wouldn't you assist that person in dying?

00:58:06.440 So we see where this goes.

00:58:08.260 It's not going to stop at adults.

00:58:09.740 Does any form of progressivism actually stop at consenting adults?

00:58:13.560 Like we always see it going to children.

00:58:15.860 We always see the consent part kind of going to the wayside.

00:58:18.540 That's just how it goes.

00:58:21.600 Children are always the subjects of progressive social experiments.

00:58:26.160 They're always the sacrifice placed on the altar of progressivism.

00:58:28.760 So we will see this getting younger and younger.

00:58:31.100 We will see the ailments getting less and less destitute and desperate.

00:58:34.960 And then the argument is just going to be, oh, for freedom.

00:58:38.560 It's for freedom.

00:58:40.780 But because we as Christians believe people are made in the image of God, because we believe

00:58:44.560 that God has numbered our days.

00:58:45.980 We don't believe that people should take their life, whether it's through a doctor or whether

00:58:51.580 it's themselves.

00:58:54.340 And so we should stand against this because we believe in human worth and we believe in

00:58:59.640 human dignity.

00:59:10.880 Okay, let me end this long mega episode on something else.

00:59:14.480 I know it's very morose.

00:59:15.820 Kind of what we're talking about today.

00:59:17.560 But I do think it's important to bring up and then I'll be hopefully done with this horrific

00:59:22.680 story.

00:59:23.220 You heard me talk about this last week that I think that the men that we talked about

00:59:29.240 on Thursday, the couple who prostituted, pimped out their two adopted special needs sons and

00:59:36.160 brutally sexually assaulted them themselves, recorded it, distributed it, made money off of it.

00:59:43.280 I mean, just the most egregious story that you can ever think of.

00:59:45.920 At the end, I very passionately called for the death penalty for that.

00:59:50.140 And I know that it is not they're not able to get the death penalty for this.

00:59:55.180 And some people disagree with me.

00:59:56.720 I went through some of those disagreements.

00:59:58.060 And, you know, why I disagree with those disagreements last week.

01:00:03.380 I don't believe, obviously, that every crime should get the death penalty.

01:00:07.700 I think it should be reserved for the most heinous crimes.

01:00:10.480 And I believe that there should be due process.

01:00:12.400 And there should be a high standard for the evidence and the process, the decision making

01:00:18.240 that goes into sentencing someone to execution.

01:00:24.020 Those people who are on death row, they are also made in the image of God.

01:00:28.820 I believe that God can redeem them and that God can forgive them.

01:00:31.620 But God's redemption and forgiveness never precludes earthly judgment or earthly justice.

01:00:37.000 Like, obviously, we don't believe that we shouldn't punish crime just because God is forgiving, right?

01:00:43.220 The state is not necessarily the arm of God's grace.

01:00:49.540 The state, as we read in Romans 13, bears the sword.

01:00:54.140 Justice and judgment is necessary in this life because evil occurs.

01:01:00.080 We have to protect people, right?

01:01:01.560 And one way to deter the most heinous crimes against other image bearers of God is the

01:01:07.760 death penalty.

01:01:08.520 And yes, the death penalty in these kinds of cases is biblical.

01:01:12.940 There is a biblical precedent for the death penalty for cases like rape and, of course,

01:01:18.440 for murder.

01:01:19.500 Again, it's not for everything, but it is for some of these most heinous cases.

01:01:23.520 And I absolutely believe that if you rape a child, then you should get the death penalty.

01:01:30.760 But in 2008, and this is what I want to bring up, in 2008, there was a Supreme Court case called

01:01:36.840 Kennedy v. Louisiana.

01:01:39.160 And it was a Supreme Court case that was centered on the death penalty for a man in Louisiana who,

01:01:47.680 and I'm just going to tell you, this is grotesque, who raped his eight-year-old daughter.

01:01:52.100 And he was sentenced to death by the, or stepdaughter, rather, in the state of Louisiana.

01:01:58.020 I'm glad that he was sentenced to death.

01:01:59.540 It was apparently so brutal that she was, I won't even describe, I read the description

01:02:04.580 of what happened to her little body because her stepdad had so brutally raped her.

01:02:09.620 She was so injured and so mangled that the state was so disturbed by what he had done

01:02:14.340 that they sentenced him to execution.

01:02:16.380 His lawyers appealed it.

01:02:17.660 It ended up making its way to the Supreme Court.

01:02:19.580 And what did the Supreme Court decide with the liberal justices plus Kennedy?

01:02:22.960 But I repeat myself, that this is a disproportionate punishment and that you cannot enact the death

01:02:30.100 penalty for child rape.

01:02:32.220 And so this was one of the most brutal child rape cases that any court had seen, certainly

01:02:36.160 the state of Louisiana.

01:02:37.600 They didn't sentence everyone who had sexually abused a child to the death penalty, but this

01:02:42.160 was so bad that they decided to.

01:02:45.140 Of course, Alito and Scalia and Thomas and Roberts, they all were in the dissent.

01:02:54.580 And Alito, he said that the court today holds that the Eighth Amendment categorically prohibits

01:03:00.720 the imposition of the death penalty for the crime of raping a child.

01:03:03.820 This is so, according to the court, no matter how young the child, no matter how many times

01:03:07.480 the child is raped, no matter how many children the perpetrator rapes, no matter how sadistic

01:03:11.600 the crime, no matter how much physical or psychological trauma is inflicted, and no matter how heinous

01:03:16.600 the perpetrator's prior criminal record may be.

01:03:19.180 The court provides two reasons for the sweeping conclusion.

01:03:21.440 First, the court claims to have identified a national consensus that the death penalty

01:03:24.940 is never acceptable for the rape of a child.

01:03:26.700 Second, the court concludes, based on its independent judgment, that imposing the death penalty

01:03:30.540 for child rape is inconsistent with the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress

01:03:37.140 of maturing society.

01:03:38.480 That's what the liberals on the court said.

01:03:40.560 And Alito says, because neither of these justifications is sound, I respectfully dissent.

01:03:44.720 This is how liberals think, though.

01:03:46.260 They're not thinking actually in terms of justice.

01:03:48.400 They're thinking in terms of an evolving standard of decency, whatever that means,

01:03:53.300 based on absolutely no objective standard or based on some kind of national consensus

01:03:57.420 as if we should be basing justice on that.

01:04:00.440 But then this is, again, the result of moral relativism, is that you get very skewed

01:04:05.240 as to what justice actually is, like what standards of right and wrong are you find yourself showing

01:04:11.300 more empathy to criminals and to child rapists than you do the actual victims and potential

01:04:17.780 victims.

01:04:19.080 So, yes, I believe in these heinous cases that the death penalty should be enacted for these

01:04:26.980 child sex crimes, for prostituting and raping, pimping out little children.

01:04:33.440 I mean, in this case, in Georgia, they were special needs children, 100 percent, 1,000 percent.

01:04:39.380 I do.

01:04:40.200 And I honestly pray that one day Kennedy v.

01:04:45.640 Louisiana is overturned.

01:04:49.220 I do.

01:04:50.300 I think it was the wrong decision by misguided liberals who have no real definition of what

01:04:56.700 compassion or justice looks like.

01:04:58.900 Again, I think that if we had swift justice in these cases, give them the chance, you know,

01:05:06.800 give them 24 hours to hear the gospel and repent.

01:05:09.900 God can do what he wants to do.

01:05:12.080 And if we had swift justice after due process when it comes to these cases, we take care of

01:05:16.400 this problem real quick.

01:05:18.780 I say this because I care about these victims and these potential victims.

01:05:24.180 And we should all care about that.

01:05:28.220 And so all of this, the theme of this was protecting image bearers, vulnerable image bearers,

01:05:36.220 and what that looks like.

01:05:37.480 And just for people who are confused, how can you be pro death penalty for certain crimes

01:05:42.300 and how and pro life at the same time those things go together?

01:05:45.340 Because I believe in protecting innocent life.

01:05:49.740 It makes no sense to be pro abortion or pro choice and anti death penalty.

01:05:54.000 So you actually believe that a convicted murderer or child rapist has more of a right to life

01:05:59.640 than the innocent baby inside the womb.

01:06:01.600 You're the one that's inconsistent.

01:06:03.440 I'm not.

01:06:04.140 I believe all innocent life should be protected.

01:06:06.900 I believe that if you murder someone, or if you rape a child, then you forfeited your

01:06:13.520 right to life.

01:06:14.100 That's not true of the baby inside the womb.

01:06:15.940 So it's actually you.

01:06:16.680 That's the hypocrite, not me.

01:06:18.240 I abide by God's justice, which is in Genesis 9, 6, that we read very clearly that he calls

01:06:24.840 for the death penalty in certain cases.

01:06:27.680 And so I am not more compassionate than God.

01:06:30.900 I'm not more loving than God.

01:06:32.700 I am not more just than God.

01:06:34.100 So I think the best thing that I can do is agree with his standards of justice.

01:06:38.000 All right.

01:06:39.000 That's all we've got time for today.

01:06:40.720 Over an hour later, long Monday episode.

01:06:44.340 I'll try to give, you know, some shorter, more punctuated episodes this week.

01:06:49.060 And so we're not all bogged down with long episodes, but all of it was important to say.

01:06:52.560 So thanks so much for listening and for watching.

01:06:54.700 And we will be back here tomorrow.

01:06:55.980 And guess what?

01:06:56.420 We'll be talking about your favorite subjects.

01:06:57.860 We'll be talking about the Great Reset and the World Economic Forum with one of your

01:07:00.660 favorite guys and one of mine, too, Justin Haskins.

01:07:03.500 So make sure you tune in for that.

01:07:04.780 See you guys then.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - January 23, 2023

Ep 743 ｜ The Deadly Consequences of Self-Worship

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